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ARTICLE · 11 MARCH 2025

Three Things For Lawyers To Consider When Fundraising

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If you've joined a high growth business as an in-house lawyer, fundraising is likely to be part of your near future. Even if you're an experienced corporate lawyer, working on the client side of these processes can be a very different beast.

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If you've joined a high growth business as an in-house lawyer, fundraising is likely to be part of your near future. Even if you're an experienced corporate lawyer, working on the client side of these processes can be a very different beast.

Where do you begin? What are the red flags to look out for? How can you make sure this process runs smoothly?

We've collaborated with our friends at Globacap to bring you the 'Adventures in Venture' series and address some of these questions. Teaming up with five experts with very different, yet complementary perspectives, we asked: 'what are the three things a lawyer needs to know about fundraising?"

Three key tips for scaling up sustainably from the series with insights from:

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